| Title |
Esther Landa, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998 |
| Alternative Title |
Accn 998, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Esther Landa |
| Description |
Transcripts (83 pages) of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esther Landa on May 11, 1982 and May 16, 1982 for the Interviews with Jews in Utah Oral History Project. |
| Creator |
Landa, Esther, 1912-2014 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949-; Oral History Institute |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1982-05-11; 1982-05-16 |
| Date Digital |
2015-07-06 |
| Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993 |
| Subject |
Jews, American--Utah--Interviews; Landa, Esther, 1912-2014--Interviews; Jews--Social life and customs; Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Abstract |
In her interviews with Leslie Kelen, Esther Landa (b. 1912) talks about her childhood, her parents and grandparents, going to school at Mills College during the Depression, and working for a school in public relations. She also speaks of her memories of Jewish refuges in Salt Lake before World War II. She discusses the involvement of her father and grandfather in the Utah Junk Company and in the Eastern Iron and Metal Company (EIMCO). Also included are descriptions of her involvement in community affairs and her thoughts on resentments and tensions between two groups of Jews in Utah. 83 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
83 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Is Part of |
Interviews with Jews in Utah collection, 1982-1988, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv70657/, Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive |
| Scanning Technician |
Niko Amaya; Halima Noor |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6q837v1 |
| Topic |
Jews, American; Jews--Social life and customs; Utah--Salt Lake City |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
901876 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q837v1 |
| Title |
Page 60 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
901851 |
| OCR Text |
Show Esther Landa 3.16 p.l7 L What about your mom? What would your mom be doing at her house. EL I think-- I don't think you could cook stuff and bring it in though, because everything had to be fixed there so it would be pesachdic . L Did your mom help her? EL Oh, sure. L Did you help too? EL I remember they had a big chiha closet with a glass fran t and the guys would sit in their chairs and then after dinner, they'd start to lean back like this. We'd have to yell, "Be Careful!" so they didn't crash into the China Closet.· Oh, and then I remember the big buffet and where Grandma used to keep the candy. On the side of the big buffet. See, I lived with them, I think I told you, when I went to business~hool, I lived with my grandparents because my family was living in California at that time. I--that was about 1934. So that as a long. time afterwards. L SO there was no sense of you guys trying to hide the fact that yomvere Jews. EL Oh no. L There was no sense that you rwere trying to move into the community and move away from the past. EL No, I don't think so. I mean, we attended the synagogue, I went to Sunday School, we observed the holidays. I don't think there was any str ______ _ Wait until you get to later on, but not now. L You went away to school in 1929. Why did you pick that school or how was that school picked foryou: EL Well, I think we looked at--alot of us at East High school were looking for colleges and I think efie~ people thought at that time, to go east was really going an awful long way aways. So there was Mills College. Supposed to be the best woman's college , west of the Mississippi. So alot of us picked it. Now I wonder if there was a high school $i counselor |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q837v1/901851 |
